- Use Messages to keep in touch with family and friends
- Connect with your work colleagues and clients
- Keep up with your favorite shows and movies
- Connect with loved ones online
- Send birthday wishes and other special messages ’
- Use Messages to keep in touch with family and friends
- Connect with your work colleagues and clients 4. Keep up with your favorite shows and movies 5. Send birthday wishes and other special messages
8 iOS 16 texting Tips and Tricks You Should Know
Backup iMessages through iCloud
If you lose your phone, or if it gets stolen, you can easily retrieve all of your messages from any of your devices. This is a great feature if you need to quickly respond to a message, or if you want to keep a copy of a conversation for future reference. ..
Open Settings and tap on your name. Then turn on Messages.
If you want to keep a conversation longer than 90 days, you’ll need to either save it to your device or have the other person save it to their device. ..
Block Someone
- Block all contact with any contacts you don’t want to communicate with.
- Ignore any messages they send you that are not relevant to your interests or needs.
- Keep a close eye on your social media accounts and make sure that no contact is following you there without first asking for your permission first.
Open the Phone app and tap Contacts from the menu at the bottom of the screen. Next, choose the person you want to block. You can scroll the list of contacts until you find the person or type their name into the search at the top of the screen.
Now scroll to the bottom of their information page and choose Block this Caller. Tap Block Contact to confirm. If you change your mind later, you can unblock them by looking them up from the Contacts app and scrolling down to choose Unblock this Caller. ..
Hide alerts, pin conversations and more
The Messages app makes it simple to send and receive messages, and it also makes it simple to distinguish between text messages and iMessages: if the message you send is green, it’s a text message. If the bubble is blue, you are iMessageing another user. For instance, you may silence a discussion by left-swiping it and choosing the purple Hide Alerts option.
To pin a conversation to the top of the Message page, hold down on it and choose Pin. The contact photo for the bookmarked conversation will now be displayed above all other messages. Aside from that, be sure to use the search function as well. The Messages app allows you to search within conversations for text, collaborations, locations, photographs, links, and documents. Simply launch the Messages app and hit the top-right search bar.
Turn your iMessage personality up to 11
- Adding a smiley face to any text
- Making a phone call with an emoji
- Sending a text with an emoji
A new way to see individual messages on the Bubble and Screen Effects screens. This feature allows you to see bubbles for each message, as well as the screen effects that are associated with that bubble.
The ability to drag and drop stickers from Sticker packs onto a photo or message to create custom designs.
With the new iOS 11 update, you can now send Animoji and Memoji talking messages. These animated emojis will let you have fun with your friends and family while staying in touch. ..
GIF search is a great way to find some of the best GIFs on the internet. It returns a list of the best GIFs that are stored on your device, as well as some that you may have missed.
Take time to set up a Memoji profile
With Memoji, you can now customize your profile icons. It’s a lot of fun, really simple to perform, and something that may be easily skipped over or missed when configuring a new iPhone. Plus, with the Messages app conversation thread starting to seem livelier as more of your friends and contacts set up theirs, it’s easier to stay connected with those you care about.
To edit your contact name and photo in Messages, open the app and tap on the three-dot icon in the top-right corner. Then, tap on Edit Name and Photo. You can then take a photo, use a Memoji, or use a photo from the photo gallery. ..
Get iMessage set up
When you sign in to iCloud, Apple activates iMessage and connects it to the email address(es) you use for your Apple ID as well as the phone number associated with your iPhone. Your email address will be used by iMessage if you exclusively use it on Macs or iPads, which are examples of devices without a phone number.
To ensure that your messages are delivered to your friends and family, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad and make sure the switch labeled “iMessage” is in the “On” position. ..
Share location
- Open the app and type in your location.
- The app will give you a list of nearby businesses and services that will be able to help you with your location.
- To share your location with others, simply tap on one of the businesses or services on the list and select “Share Location” from the popup menu.
Open Messages and choose the conversation thread you have with the person you want to send your location to. Tap their name, then the info button. The person’s details page will open. From here, tap Share My Location. You can share for one hour, until the end of the day or indefinitely.
Record and send a voice message
To start a conversation, open the Messages app and tap on the person you want to talk to. If they are already in a conversation, you will be prompted to join in. You can also start a new conversation by selecting one that is already ongoing. To record a voice message, press and hold the microphone button until the blue recording light starts blinking. Then say your message and release the button. ..
To record a voice message, tap the blue audio button under the text bar. Next, tap the red microphone button that pops up after selecting the blue audio button. This begins the recording process. When you’re finished saying your message, tap the red button to stop recording. Your voice message will fill the text bar; you just need to tap the blue up arrow to send it. ..
Final Words
8 Tips and Tricks to Keep You texting Perfectly
